Why Nominate

Being recognised for an Award offers a distinct competitive advantage to those offering products and services to a highly visible, global market. It provides recognition of excellence for current and prospective employees, investors, clients and customers, and industry collaborators and partners.

DRIVENxDESIGN award programs also offer a unique platform for brands to reach a highly specialised audience through the Awards communication streams.

The Awards are open to anyone with an interest in developing products and services that are designed to have both a commercial and market impact.

Immediate benefits on nomination submission are:

After review all nominations are shortlisted and displayed on the awards website visible to our extensive audience.

You will also receive a notification email with promotional tools including awards logos.

Nominations will be featured in our eNewsletter, media releases and social media channels

Selected award winning projects will be invited to participate in the associated design summit. This is a live interview and puts your design work and team front and center as design leaders.

The Awards enable your brand to:

Benchmark your work

Impress clients and customers

Boost confidence in your products and services

Add unmistakable gravitas to your marketing materials

Boost employee morale and demonstrate company pride in their work

Demostrate your business is listening to and adapting to your clients' and customers' needs

Stand out from your competition by being recogized as an award winner

According to a study by the University of Leicester*, award winning companies experienced:

Higher growth in sales over non-award winning companies by an average of 77%

Higher increases in operating income over non-award winning companies by an average of 18%

Higher growth in assets over non-award winning companies by an average of 44%

*Source: University of Leicester, sponsored by the British Quality Foundation (BQF) and the European Foundation for Quality Management (http://www.quality-foundation.co.uk/pub_reports.htm), based over a period of 11 years.